Another computer question....

[TC2]

I have 2 hard drives, one is just for storage.

Is there any way I can run XP on 1 and some flavor of linux on the other??

 

[sk*]

Yup.

-sk

 

[jnuts]

You'll need a boot loader on the boot drive - unless your BIOS will allow you to boot from differing hard drives.

So yes, you can put XP on one, Linux on the other, but you'll probably need a boot loader to be able to do it. The Red Hat installer will do this for ya. It will keep the OS that you have in place and then install Linux to another partion or physical drive. Tread carefully in setup...if fu, your first OS is toast...

 

[TC2]

You'll need a boot loader on the boot drive - unless your BIOS will allow you to boot from differing hard drives.

So yes, you can put XP on one, Linux on the other, but you'll probably need a boot loader to be able to do it. The Red Hat installer will do this for ya. It will keep the OS that you have in place and then install Linux to another partion or physical drive. Tread carefully in setup...if fu, your first OS is toast...

yeah, I tried the dual boot thing and totally fucked it up. So i wanted the different os's of completely different drives.

 

[Dial_tone]

If you you install XP first then put Linux on the 2nd, the Linux install should (keyword=should) notice it and install the GRUB graphical boot mgr.
Redhat 8 killed my FreeBSD install last year and I haven't dualbooted since.

 

[Spunky]

dial_tone is right.

 

[Y_lifter]

VMware ?

 

[jnuts]

VMware ?

I tried it. Haven't liked it so far.